Eleven more shopping days until Halloween ...
The people have spoken but does this mean the taps will be turned off?:
With Albertans apparently voting “yes” in a referendum on the elimination of Canada’s equalization program, advocates hope the federal government will enter into negotiations that could see the scheme reformed.
Kevin Lacey, the Alberta director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, described the referendum as one of the “biggest and most significant constitutional referendums” since the Charlottetown Accord’s failure in 1992.
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Laurentian elites may consider Albertans such hicks they don’t even understand that equalization doesn’t involve their government sending a cheque back east. But when people know they’re being ripped off, telling them they’re too dumb to understand the situation will not soothe them.
To wit:
The equalisation program in Canada was introduced to settle financial disparities between provinces and there are no conditions to how that money is spent. In effect, it acts as welfare. A more well-off province will fund a province not as well-off.
Alberta, a province with oil wealth, has a population of 4,442,879 and has given Quebec, which has a population of 8,604,495, roughly 221 billion dollars (51 per cent of all payments) since 1957.
The same Quebec that demands to be treated differently.
The final results of the referendum will be known on October 26th.
If Kenney and Albertans are serious, it will be a cold winter indeed for the east.
No official opposition then (such as it was)?:
When the Parliament resumes on Nov. 22, only those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be allowed to enter the House of Commons precinct, the Parliament’s Board of Internal Economy has decided.
Exceptions will be allowed for those with valid medical reasons, but they have to present proof of a recent negative COVID-19 antigen test result.
The restriction applies to members of Parliament, their staff, political research office employees, administration employees, journalists, parliamentary business visitors, contractors, and consultants.
More:
A Commons committee last night rejected compulsory vaccination for MPs. Proof of a negative Covid test will do just as well, Speaker Anthony Rota said in a statement: ‘Details with respect to implementation are being developed.’
House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota says a federal attempt to shield documents related to the firing of two scientists is a violation of parliamentary privilege and must be tossed out of court.
In a notice of motion filed today in Federal Court, Rota says pursuant to its parliamentary privileges, the House of Commons has the power to send for the “persons, papers and records” it deems necessary to its functions.
He says this constitutionally entrenched power is fundamental to Canada’s system of parliamentary democracy, and to Parliament’s critical role in acting as the “grand inquest of the nation” and in holding the executive branch of government to account.
The Liberal government asked the court last month to prohibit disclosure of records concerning dismissal of two scientists from Canada’s highest-security laboratory.
The move came shortly after Rota reprimanded Public Health Agency of Canada head Iain Stewart over his repeated refusal to provide the unredacted documents to MPs on the Canada-China relations committee.
Also:
Quebec registered 458 new cases and the deaths of two additional people attributed to the COVID-19 health crisis Wednesday.
Quebec has released a new type of digital proof of COVID-19 vaccination, this one meant to be used for travel outside of the province in what the province calls a "pan-Canadian standard."
This new version is also a QR (quick response) code similar to the one already downloaded by millions of Quebecers during the mass vaccination campaign.
Released Monday, it will "be recognized and can be used in all Canadian provinces, as well as in several American states and countries around the world," the province said in a news release, so that the user can prove his or her vaccination status.
How is that working out for you guys?
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StatsCan is out w/2020 Covid mortality analysis:
— Roman Baber (@Roman_Baber) October 19, 2021
▪️>80% of Covid "related" deaths were in LTC
▪️~90% of deaths March to July 2020, w/pre-existing condition, mostly dementia
Fix the narrative & protect LTC. Don't fire nurses or assign QR codes. #onpolihttps://t.co/qXrlmdj2bM pic.twitter.com/r5s6pzwWEM
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Hundreds of anti-vaccine protesters joined some political leaders in Sofia on Wednesday to demonstrate against Bulgaria's decision to make a COVID-19 "Green Certificate" mandatory for access to restaurants, theatres and shopping malls.
The interim health ministry announced the move on Tuesday to try to slow a surge in infections and deaths in the European Union's least vaccinated country.
However, it was greeted by a chorus of disapproval from business and some politicians with an eye on Bulgaria's third parliamentary election this year, on Nov. 14.
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The Biden administration on Wednesday outlined its plan to vaccinate millions of U.S. children ages 5 to 11 as soon as the COVID-19 shot is authorized for them, readying doses and preparing locations ahead of the busy holiday season.
One should also remind one that Regeneron is not used in Canada but it is in the US.
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“There is no evidence that ivermectin works to prevent or treat COVID-19, and it is not authorized for this use,” Health Canada wrote in a press release.
Is that so?:
Role of ivermectin in the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare workers in India: A matched case-control study
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Ivermectin, 'wonder drug' from Japan: the human use perspective
Your corrupt, incompetent and lazy government and you:
Canada should align with its allies to exclude Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies from its 5G network, says former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler.
“We should be in the company of our democratic partners in the 5G, and not take a different position where that different position is in no instances warranted here,” Cotler said in an interview.
Canada remains the only country among the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance that hasn’t made a decision regarding Huawei and 5G, despite the intelligence community’s warnings about the company’s threats to national security. The other four countries have banned or taken steps to ban Huawei from their 5G networks.
Huawei was founded by a former officer of the People’s Liberation Army and has close ties to Beijing. The U.S. government has urged its allies to exclude the company from the West’s next-generation communications, saying Beijing could use it for spying.
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The cost of just about everything that Statistics Canada measures was more expensive in September, pushing headline inflation to its highest in almost two decades and complicating the Bank of Canada’s plans to keep interest rates pinned near zero until well into 2022.
More:
Driving most of the increase were prices at the pumps as consumers paid 32.8 per cent more last month for gasoline than in September 2020.
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The price of certain food items is soaring across the country and surpassing the rate of inflation, new Statistics Canada data reveals.
According to the federal department, meats, produce and dairy items are up 20% to 30% in select provinces.
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CMHC in a mammoth data scoop compiled personal financial records on nearly nine million mortgage holders, according to Access To Information files. Data obtained without borrowers’ informed consent included personal income, municipal addresses, credit scores and household debts even for homeowners who were not CMHC customers: “No, we shouldn’t need a privacy impact assessment.”
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The Department of Public Works plans to install cafés and lounge seating in federal offices so employees can “zone out, relax or stretch,” according to Access To Information records. Staff also proposed special seating near windows called “reflection areas” where employees might look outside: “Shouldn’t we?”
This is is how you play the long con game:
While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Kamloops on Monday, finally meeting with the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc First Nations after his fiasco over skipping the opportunity on Truth and Reconciliation Day, Sept. 30, he told media that all requested documentation Ottawa has on residential schools had been turned over to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) in Winnipeg. The centre aims to be the First Nations’ archive for the history and memories of residential school survivors.
“All the records in possession of the federal government have already been turned over to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation in Winnipeg,” Trudeau said Monday in response to a journalist’s question. “We will continue to look to make sure that there are no others that we have remaining to turn over, but we have, in our understanding, turned over all of those records.”
The centre disputes that claim, Global News has reported.
“At present, we are still waiting for Canada to provide the final versions of school narratives and supporting documents used in the Independent Assessment Process to the NCTR,” the centre said on its website . “The NCTR has various school narratives on its website, but some are out of date. For other schools, no narrative has ever been provided.”
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Senior members of a British Columbia First Nation have issued an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that petitions him to formally commit to seven steps he could take to show he is serious about reconciliation.
It is often said that there is no honour among thieves.
Cases in point ...
Your showmanship won't change things, Moon:
South Korea should redouble its efforts to become a global defence industry leader, President Moon Jae-in told a military expo in the outskirts of Seoul on Wednesday, after landing at the site in an air force fighter jet.
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North Korea test-fired a new, smaller ballistic missile from a submarine, state media confirmed on Wednesday, a move that analysts said could be aimed at more quickly fielding an operational missile submarine.
Start worrying about the country whose leadership you tried legitimising.
I'll bet China is a huge financial blackhole:
China Evergrande Group (3333.HK) has dropped plans to sell a 50.1% stake in its property services unit, which would have raised $2.6 billion, dealing another blow to the cash-strapped developer's efforts to raise cash to pay its creditors.
Once China's top-selling developer and now reeling under more than $300 billion in liabilities, Evergrande was in talks to sell the stake in Evergrande Property Services (6666.HK) to smaller rival Hopson Development Holdings (0754.HK).
A volcano erupted in Japan on Wednesday, blasting ash several miles into the sky and prompting officials to warn against the threat of lava flows and falling rocks, but there were no reports of injuries or casualties.
Mount Aso volcano in Japan has erupted and this video shows the moment it happened. 🌋 pic.twitter.com/baaWQiy86S
— suzy (@Suzy1776) October 20, 2021
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